Musings (reflexões) & Quotes (citações)

1 - An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind ~ Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

2 - Attacking always stems from fear and guilt. No one attacks unless he first feels threatened and believes that through attack he can demonstrate his own strength at the expense of another’s vulnerability. ~ Gerald Jampolsky

3 - Courage is not being without fear; courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway ~ John Wayne

4 - Live every day as if it were your last and then some day you'll be right. ~ H.H. "Breaker" Morant

5 - You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t; you don’t think your way into becoming yourself. ~ Anne Lamott

6 - The primary difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people fail more. If you see failure as a monster that ruined your life, take another look. That monster can become a benevolent teacher. ~ Martha Beck

7 - Follow Your Heart Instead of Your Head ~ Tama Kieves

8 - “Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life (…) Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” ~ Steve Jobs

9 -  By listening to our inner voice we can heal relationships, experience peace of mind and let go of fear  ~ Marianne Williamson   

10 - While the voice of social conditioning manifests itself as a stream of thoughts in the head, wisdom (read intuition) often appears as emotions or physical sensations in the body. So, trust your instincts; intuition doesn’t lie ~ Martha Beck

11 - There is only one corner of the Universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self ~ Aldous Huxley

12 - He who controls the meaning of words dictates the terms of the debate ~ Orwell

13 - There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things that are beyond the power of our will ~ Epictetus

14 - Happiness depends upon ourselves ~ Aristotle

15 - Of course problems arise, but thinking only of the negative does not help to find solutions and it destroys peace of mind. ~ Dalai Lama

16 - A lucky person escapes his enemies, but a really lucky person slips into a house to escape enemies and opens the door to another world ~ the poet Rumi

17 - When one door of happiness closes, another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. ~ Helen Keller

18 - Fear is momentary; regrets are forever (se esta frase não é a minha favorita, anda lá perto) ~ Joe Robinson, author

19 - Love is Letting Go of Fear (este é o titulo de um livrinho que li há 25 anos atrás e que me abriu muito os olhos) ~ Gerald Jampolsky

20 - I never think of the future, it comes soon enough ~ Albert Einstein

21 - Do unto others as you would have them do to you (aka “the golden rule”)

22 - Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think. ~ Chinese Proverb

23 - Carpe Diem (seize the day) ~ Quintus Horatius Flaccus

24 - Peter Drucker:

Ø  Change is the only constant.

Ø  The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence, but to act with yesterday’s logic.

25 - Frases que não são minhas, que não me lembro onde as fui buscar, mas de que gosto muito:

Ø  Better late than never.

Ø  Never say never.

Ø  Love shouldn’t hurt; if it does, it’s not love.

Ø  Truth is the enemy of a guilty conscience.

Ø  Life isn’t always greener on the other side of the river.

Ø  If you want to change the world around you, start with yourself (esta é a mensagem principal de The Man in the Mirror , uma canção de Michael Jackson:”if you want to make the world a better place take a look at yourself and make a change”).

Ø  A crisis is merely a threshold for something bigger to come.

Ø  You can’t always control adversities or the curveballs that life sends your way, but you can control the way you react to them.

Ø  Let go of “Oh, No!” and embrace “Oh, Well…”

Ø  Your freedom ends where mine begins.

Ø  Ignorance breeds fear.       

Ø  Knowledge is power.